Swap in RAID1?

[Michael Hipp]

Mike Reinehr wrote:
> This from The Software RAID How-To, v1.1, 2004-06-03, 2.3 Swapping on RAID:
> 
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.3
> 
> "Another reason to use RAID for swap is high availability. If you set up a 
> system to boot on eg. a RAID-1 device, the system should be able to survive a 
> disk crash. But if the system has been swapping on the now faulty device, you 
> will for sure be going down. Swapping on a RAID-1 device would solve this 
> problem."

Thanks for that.

I'll gladly trade a bit of performance for the liklihood of surviving a 
disk crash on an operational system. Looks like I'll RAID my SWAP.

Or SWAP my RAID? For what, I wonder? (Nevermind, it's almost quitting 
time here in Arkansas.)

Michael